The Shura Council of the Rizeigat Arab tribe in East Darfur announced that they have dispatched a delegation to other states to brief their tribesmen on reasons for the failure of a recent peace and reconciliation conference with the Ma’alia Arab tribe.

The team will travel to Blue Nile, Sennar, and El Gedaref states – not traditional homelands of the tribe but nonetheless areas where some tribesmen live.

In a press statement to the Khartoum-based Al Jerida newspaper, the spokesman of the Shura Council said fighting between the two feuding tribes has left over 160 people dead from their side alone.

He accused some people of inciting war because of oil resources in the disputed territory, while questioning the failure of the government to intervene to halt the conflict.

He called for the government to provide full security in East Darfur state, claiming people are being killed even on the streets of the capital Ed Daien.